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How to use the word painful in a Sentence? Page #7

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It is painful to admit, but important to do so. I apologize to all. I was a bit busy when this was submitted, and did not do my job well.

Frances Arnold

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We pledge to learn from past tragedies so as to not to repeat them. We welcome the efforts of Armenians and Turks to acknowledge and reckon with their painful history.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I have lived though the most painful moment of my life.

Alberto Fujimori

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Weve had far too many of these and each one gets every more painful. Im always struck by the fact that we seem to lose the best of our officers in these tragedies.

Mayor Duggan

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It deeply pains our government to announce -- because this is painful for Chile -- that we will not hold the APEC summit, which was scheduled to take place in November, or the COP25 summit, scheduled to take place in December.

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Because of the nature of the female genitalia, if you get new herpes, there's likely multiple painful blisters, for men, typically a few blisters.

Hunter Handsfield

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Do not force to be a victor always, learn to gain more when you lose in every situation. Failure is a great guidance which no one can afford you because it normally wasteful and painful.

bj vengai chirwa

added by anonymous
4 years ago

The betrayal and the abandonment, in that moment, by the highest military court in this land, I'm not sure which was worse and more painful to experience, what my father did or how I felt walking out of that conference room that day.

James Grazioplene

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I know it was a painful experience, but it was only a finger, when it comes to the future of my children and country I will not sit back even if they cut off my whole hand.

Safiullah Safi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It was a very painful decade, hilton vs. the nuns was not the best public relations move.

Hilton Hotels

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Here is somebody who put his life on the line to defend this country, a veteran, dealing with a terrible, terrible illness, and what was obviously very unsettling is when he used the word suicide, nevada Congressional was the most dramatic and painful moment of the whole town meeting.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Even now we have livestock we keep in the rural areas because of him, so it's painful to lose our father, our grandfather who helped us to learn and go to school.

Tongai Huni

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The truth is (in most cases), the most painful thing a person can hear. So why couple that with lies, deceit, and betrayal, and make the person deal with , not only the painful truth but all those other devistating things on top of the already painful truth.

Kathryn Atkins

added by anonymous
4 years ago

It was very painful. I just wanted to help her, and I couldn't. I thought she had got bitten by a dog or something, i tried calling her name and she wouldn't answer.

Rosie Granados

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is painful and embarrassing, i have spent more time in my life in this country than in France.

Richard Bertinet

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Being upset is not a bad thing. It shows compassion, some of these events that are in the news are causing us to confront deep, painful important issues.

Elana Newman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We strongly urge Austins captors to release him and to end this painful ordeal, we call on anyone who may have information about Austins whereabouts - governments and individuals -- to work cooperatively with us to secure his safe release and to bring him home.

State Department spokeswomanMorgan Ortagus

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

My main goal is -- apart from fulfilling the fifth pillar of Islam( Saudi Arabia The Hajj) -- is the supplication, the duaa' that this act of violence and act of terrorism will never happen again anywhere to anybody, it's very painful as a family of the deceased, to have a loved one gone. It doesn't matter what race or religion we are. We suffer the same.

Rashid Omar

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It has been a painful time for me and my family, but I want to state to you and the American people in the strongest possible terms that these allegations are false, nothing happened, ever.

John Hyten

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This has been an extraordinarily painful few weeks.

Bill de Blasio

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When Trump does these things, it brings up the same feelings that I had over 50 some years ago, and it's very, very painful, it's extremely divisive and I don't think this is becoming of the President of the United States of America.

New Jersey

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I recognize the challenge that I have before me because of the recent controversies, but I firmly believe that it is possible to restore confidence and that we will be able, after this painful process, to achieve reconciliation.

Ricardo Rosselló

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I recognize the enormous challenge I have before me due to the recent controversies, but I firmly believe that we can restore trust and, after this painful and shameful process, achieve reconciliation.

Governor Ricardo Rossello

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We are devastated, to lose a child is not easy for anyone. But this is just too painful.

Gurmeet Singh

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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